TripAdvisor Reviews Hotel Refugio Del Inca Salta

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... downtown's main sights, its colonial churches, central square (the main part of which was unfortunately barricaded due to restoration) and a fascinating museum highlighting the world's highest archaeological site. This site, atop Volcan Llullaillaco at 6,739 meters (22,110 feet), held the perfectly-preserved bodies and related artifacts of three Inca child sacrifices, discovered buried in ice in 1999. In a controversial but probably ...

... group that spoke Spanish and didn't have a sense of direction like mine because she made it back with no worries. Longest day, and it's still going. First time this whole trip I had a meal that I wouldn't of normally ordered if I knew what it was, it was something my mum would usually make, a bowl of soup full of chick peas and beans. After our first family dinner, half of us went to bed and the other half ...

... has resulted in our return to Salta and where it has been hospitalised for a couple of days in a VW garage: we are still awaiting a diagnosis.

After spending the last three and a half in central and northern South America, our first impression of Argentina is that it is all very familiar, European and 'normal' - no more fascinating indigenous villages, old ladies in colourful skirts and bowler hats knitting on the side of the road, young girls herding goats, ...